A time-dependent real-space renormalisation group is used to show that all the one-dimensional kinetic Ising models with transition rate that depends on nearest neighbours only belong to the same universality glass of the critical dynamics.
Recent results concerning non-universality in the dynamical critical behavior of the one-dimensional Ising model, are generalised to several formulations of the Potts model, using arguments based on domain wall motion. By applying real-space renormalisation group methods, the authors also study the dynamical Ising model, with single flips, both for a period distribution of nearest-neighbor exchanges and for the random chain (with nonzero couplings). They show that the critical dynamical exponent is z=1+J M /J m where J M (J m ) is the greatest (smallest) of the exchanges.
A plausible argument using the concepts of dynamic renormalisation group is used to derive the dynamical exponent z of the one-dimensional q=2, 3 and 4 Potts and four-state clock models. The exact result (z=2) for the Ising model with Glauber dynamics is recovered and in addition the authors find that the q=3, 4 Potts and four-state clock models belong to the same universality class. Moreover they find that z=3.05+or-0.1 for the (q=2) Potts model with Kawasaki dynamics in agreement with the z=4- eta prediction of Halperin, Hohenberg and Ma (1974). A simple qualitative derivation is also given.